United Airlines is Down (!) due to network connectivity problems

Wed Jul 8 17:46:19 UTC 2015

I think you are over estimating the technical resources at NYSE.
On Jul 8, 2015 1:44 PM, "Matthew Huff" <mhuff at ox.com> wrote:

> Given that the technical resources at the NYSE are significant and the
> lengthy duration of the outage, I believe this is more serious than is
> being reported. OTOH, the fact that the market is now mostly decentralized
> and instruments are multiply listed, the impact of the NYSE is much less
> serious than it used to be.
>
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> > On Jul 8, 2015, at 1:18 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster at mykolab.com>
> wrote:
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> > Given that the Internet is held together with paper clips, bailing
> > twine, and bubblegum, I'd prefer to take theses organizations' initial
> > word for the fact that there is nothing obviously malicious in these
> > outages.
> >
> > The mainstream press, on the other hand, seems to want it to be a hack
> > or data breach or... something other than a "glitch". :-)
> >
> > - - ferg
> >
> >
> > On 7/8/2015 10:15 AM, Mel Beckman wrote:
> >
> >> It's important to not form an opinion too early, especially anyone
> >> involved with forensic analysis of these systems. This is a
> >> classic fault in amateur investigation: an early opinion will lead
> >> you into confirmation bias, irrationally accepting data agreeing
> >> with your opinions and rejecting that disproving it.
> >>
> >> -mel beckman
> >>
> >>> On Jul 8, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Paul Ferguson
> >>> <fergdawgster at mykolab.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >> NYSE: "The issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue
> >> and is not the result of a cyber breach."
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/NYSE/status/618818929906085888
> >>
> >> United Air statement CNBC: “An issue with a router degraded network
> >> connectivity for various applications. We fixed the router."
> >>
> >> https://twitter.com/barronstechblog/status/618816643821633536
> >>
> >> - ferg
> >>
> >
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